CRTC calls for new radio station applications to serve Georgina

OTTAWA - The CRTC has issued a call for radio applications to serve the south-central Ontario market of Georgina after determining that the area can sustain an additional commercial station.The Commission said Thursday that the town, located 81 kilometres north of Toronto on the south-east shore of Lake Simcoe, is geographically the largest of nine municipalities in the Regional Municipality of York and belongs to the Numeris central area of Toronto, which shares the same boundary with the corresponding Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA). In 2016, the population of Georgina represented 0.8% of the population in the Toronto CMA.Noting that...